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Temporary Bar Made Of IKEA Storage Boxes


Dezeen reports about the semi-translucent bar that designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have built for a competition of the Universidade do

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Jewellery Pops Up In A Hardware Coat

If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however,…

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What To Do With An Unfinished City In The Desert?

This is the first time that we react on the news of the day. But with the unexpected and rather predictable collapse of the Dubai bubble we have…

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Open Now: The St. Pauli Open Air Gallery

Yesterday someone pointed me to a fresh photo exhibition in the heart of Hamburg’s district of St. Pauli and bordering neighbourhoods, titled ‘All Over the Kiez’. This project…

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The QR Cloud Project: Micro Secrets In Public Space

Recently, Amsterdam-based urban concept office Golfstromen launched the temporary QR Cloud Project in the western part of the Dutch capital. The project consists of seven artworks…

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Online Shopping Gets Real For One Week In East London

Online fashion retailer Roktic has opened one of the heaviest short-term pop-up stores I’ve ever heard of. For only one week Roktic will land at the East Gallery at London’s fashionable Brick…

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Opening Soon: Pop-Up Mini Swimming Pool

Marseille-born and Amsterdam-based artist Laurence Aëgerter is about to launch a new episode in her ‘Opening Soon/Opening Now’ series in Amsterdam. Currently she is busy turning…

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On Kiosks, Part 2: the Shoebox Shop


Two days ago I wrote about the importance of the kiosk to the urban realm, especially the quality of public space. It seems that the world of urban…

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The Flying Grass Carpet Goes Sky High

Last summer we reported about the Flying Grass Carpet, the huge pop-up landscape entirely made of artificial grass. The project of our friends, Rotterdam-based architecture and…

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Talca’s Red Umbrella Cityscape

A temporary shelter of red Umbrella’s has been constructed in the centre of Talca, Chile. The project is done by students Jaime Latorre and Pablo Retamal of the…

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Gecekondu, Chapter 2: Amsterdam

New chapter of the Gecekondu and Sausalito Almere story! Last week we reported about the Gecekondu summerhouse hotel built by DUS Architects at the beach…

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Built Overnight: Gecekondu in Sausalito Almere

At the ‘beach’ of Amsterdam’s new suburb Almere, our friends of DUS Architects have built an illegal temporary summer house slash hotel which opened its doors three days…

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Darmstadt’s Pop-Up Theatre

The architects of Berlin agency Convertible City have designed a great theatre transformation project in the German town of Darmstadt. During the recontruction of…

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Pop-Up Café Opens in Amsterdam

Recently the Pop-Up Café opened its doors in West Amsterdam.
“The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August…

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Rooms of Red Bull: Stimulate Your Mind

Another creative space in Amsterdam officially opened its doors yesterday: the so-called Rooms of Red Bull. For three months during summer, Rooms of Red…

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